IF I WERE

If I were a raindrop, and you were a leaf,

I would burst from the cloud above you,

And lie on your breast in a rapture of rest,

And love you, love you, love you.

If I were a brown bee, and you were a rose,

I would fly to you, love, nor miss you;

I would sip and sip from your nectared lip,

And kiss you, kiss you, kiss you.

If I were a doe, dear, and you were a brook,

Ah, what would I do then, think you?

I would kneel by the bank, in the grasses dank,

And drink you, drink you, drink you.